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BARCELONA – The WASHINGTON, D.C. – Antiques dealers specializing in Asian art
(very) long-awaited along with U.S. auction houses were among companies filing for
completion of Gaudí‘s exemption against Trump administration tariffs that were levied on
Barcelona Bascilica Chinese art and antiques, including drawings, paintings, prints and
de la Sagrada Familia sculpture, in August 2019. They were able to ultimately file for the
will no longer hap- exclusion from a duty levied on
pen in 2026 because artwork and antiques that come
the coronavirus epi- from China during a three-
demic has curtailed month period beginning
its construction and November 1, 2019. But now, as
frustrated funding, of September 1, those tempo-
basilica officials rary exclusions, save the
admitted recently. Much controversy surrounds the building of the remaining exemption for paint-
Sagrada Família. New construction materials are being used today ings, have expired, leaving
which, some feel, Antoni Gaudí himself would not have used given many in the trade facing a 7.5
that the project was started in 1882. percent tax upon entering the
United States. The 7.5 percent
tariff on Chinese art will apply
LONDON – Japan House London is the first European destination to imports from all countries,
for the internationally acclaimed not just art coming directly
Architecture for Dogs exhibition from China. This will make the exact same object of Chinese art more
which features a collection of 16 expensive to buy in the United States than in other countries and make
architectural designs for different it difficult for US dealers to compete in the global art market.
dog breeds including the Beagle,
Bichon Frise, and the Poodle. The
exhibition offers smaller dogs ARTANDOBJECT.COM – Perhaps the greatest Japanese artist of all
the opportunity to interact time, Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760–1849) The Great Wave is instantly
with a number of the designs. The recognizable around the globe. Over the course of his lifetime, Hokusai
exhibition will be available to visit at was immensely productive, creating over 1,000 paintings, 3,000 color
the Kensington High Street venue, prints, illustrations for over 200 books, and hundreds of drawings. Having
as well as through virtual experi- suffered through personal tragedy, it was thought that Hokusai
ences such as a 3D Tour, online retreated from his work for a time, before reemerging with his famous
talks and “live” guided tours. Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji (c. 1831–1833) series. Now the British
Museum has proof that the
artist never slowed his
CMOG – Ahead of the November election, The Corning Museum of pace, having recently
Glass (CMoG) is presenting Transparent: Voting in America. The added 103 previously
exhibit highlights the invention of the glass ballot box in the 1850s, unknown drawings to
which provided literal trans- their Hokusai collection,
parency during the voting process which includes a version of
and was meant to combat voter The Great Wave. Created in
fraud and suppression. On view 1829, the drawings were
virtually through March, 2021, part of an ambitious
Transparent features a glass project called the Great
ballot box from the 1880s, Picture Book of Everything, which went uncompleted. It is unclear why
designed by Amos Pettibone the drawings were not published in the artist’s lifetime and the works
(1843-1926), together with a remained hidden away in a private collection until last year, when they
series of historical cartoons, were rediscovered. The drawings are to be part of a future exhibition at
demonstrating how glass ballot The British Museum.
boxes were symbols of a free and
fair election. Click Here.
THE ARMENIAN
REPORTER – Divers
VINEPAIR.COM – Kentucky is on a collecting mission to be the from Finland have
home of the world’s best bourbon libraries. Thanks to the 2018 Bill made an unanticipated
that allows distilled spirit license holders to buy vintage spirits from discovery of an excep-
non-licensed individuals and sell the con- tionally well-preserved
tents by the pour or by the bottle. The bill shipwreck going back
defines vintage spirits as “distilled spirits that practically 400 years.
are in their original manufacturer’s unopened The ship, an example of
container; are not owned by a distillery; and a Dutch ‘fluit’ (or fluyt), was found near the mouth of the Gulf of Finland,
are not otherwise available for purchase from a in the easternmost waters of the Baltic. At a depth of about 280 feet, the
licensed wholesaler.” Bill Thomas, the owner Badewanne diving group found this Dutch time pill pushing the seabed,
of Washington, D.C.’s Jack Rose, says “I’m practically entirely maintained and undamaged. Even the holds of the
glad for these laws. We have to get stuff out ship are full, the divers say, still carrying its stock of provisions and wares
of basements, attics, and closets, where it’s from when Dutch cargo vessels largely dominated seaborne trade in this
no use to anyone. Let’s get them in the part of the world. Further investigation of this particular find could
hands of drinkers.” reveal interesting facts about these historical treasures.

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